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New Disney Infinity playset features Marvel and 4-player action

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 8, 2015
1 min

Forget the Force — remember the superheroes. Disney revealed details for a new playset for Disney Infinity 3.0 today. Called Marvel Battlegrounds, the new adventure allows players to use any Marvel Disney Infinity figure. It’s also the first to support four-player co-op.

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Esports reports shows the consumer habits of 15M competitive gaming viewers

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 8, 2015
3 min

Report tracks the consumer habits of the 15 million large esports audience

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Drive Any Track turns your music collection into a hypnotic, addictive futuristic racer

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 8, 2015
3 min

I often forget how much music I’ve collected over the years. I’ve got stacks of vinyl (yes, I’m that old), racks of CDs, and...

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Josh Buckley (left) and Sasha MacKinnon, cofounders of Mino Games in 2015.

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Mino Games raises $2.2M and launches Mino Monsters 2

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2015
2 min

Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date....

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Minecraft Story Mode asks its young audience to care about narrative

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 8, 2015
3 min

Do young gamers want stories? Telltale Games is about to find out. The first episode of Minecraft Story Mode is out next week, but fully...

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Chesh reinvents chess every time you play

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 8, 2015
6 min

When I was a kid learning to play chess, I had one big question that never had a good answer: “why?” Why does the...

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Xbox co-creator wants a home in the Smithsonian for physicist Richard Feynman’s van

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2015
2 min

Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, is on a new mission. And this one takes him back to the days of his first...

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Panel to explore the super-geek gaming future

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2015
3 min

We’ve had tantalizing glimpses of the future with demos of augmented reality, virtual reality, user-generated content, esports, and the coolest new mobile devices. At the high end, gaming PCs using Intel’s Skylake processors, and dedicated graphics chips can power multiple screens and even motion simulators.